Book ID: CBB000100034

The age of economic measurement (2001)

unapi

Klein, Judy L. (Editor)
Morgan, Mary S. (Editor)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: vi + 397 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Judy L. Klein; Mary S. Morgan: Reader's essential non-guide to the age of economic measurement. Theodore M. Porter: Economics and the history of measurement. Sybilla Nikolow: A.F.W. Crome's measurements of the strength of the state. Bradley W. Bateman: Make a righteous number. Franck Jovanovic; Philippe Le Gall: March to numbers. Judy L. Klein: Reflections from the age of economic measurement. Kevin D. Hoover; Michael E. Dowell: Measuring causes. Thomas M. Humphrey: Quantity theory and needs-of-trade measurements and indicators for monetary policymakers in the 1920s. Martin C. Kohli: Leontief and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1941-54. Flavio Comim: Richard Stone and measurement criteria for national accounts. Mary S. Morgan: Making measuring instruments. Sandra J. Peart: Facts carefully marshalled in the empirical studies of William Stanley Jevons. Harro Maas: Instrument can make a science. E. Roy Weintraub: Measurement, and changing images of mathematical knowledge. Marcel Boumans: Fisher's instrumental approach to index numbers. H. Spencer Banzhaf: Quantifying the qualitative.


Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000100034/

Similar Citations

Article Maas, Harro; (1999)
Mechanical rationality: Jevons and the making of economic man (/isis/citation/CBB000111764/)

Article Chassé, Daniel Speich; (2014)
Was zählt der Preis? Dogmengeschichte und Wissensgeschichte der Ökonomie (/isis/citation/CBB001420733/)

Book Sergio Sartori; (2014)
Storia delle misure nella società dal 1875 (/isis/citation/CBB319376938/)

Book Marcel Boumans; (2015)
Science Outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics (/isis/citation/CBB599523167/)

Article Klaus Ruthenberg; Hasok Chang; (2017)
Acidity: Modes of Characterization and Quantification (/isis/citation/CBB973293015/)

Article Fenneke Sysling; (2020)
Measurement, self-tracking and the history of science: An introduction (/isis/citation/CBB055576627/)

Chapter Tousignant, Noemi; (2014)
A Quantity of Suffering: Measuring Pain as Emotion in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States (/isis/citation/CBB001202328/)

Book Maas, Harro; (2001)
Mechanical Reasoning: William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (/isis/citation/CBB000500077/)

Book Maas, Harro; (2005)
William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (/isis/citation/CBB000741090/)

Article Michell, Joel; (2006)
Psychophysics, Intensive Magnitudes, and the Psychometricians' Fallacy (/isis/citation/CBB000770733/)

Article Harro Maas; (2020)
Monitoring the self: François-Marc-Louis Naville and his moral tables (/isis/citation/CBB489750642/)

Article Porter, Theodore M.; (2001)
On the Virtues and Disadvantage of Quantification for Democratic Life (/isis/citation/CBB000100828/)

Chapter Giannichedda, Enrico; (2008)
Pesi e misure: storia e archeologia di sistemi eterogenei (/isis/citation/CBB000951238/)

Authors & Contributors
Maas, Harro
Zuidervaart, Huibert Jan
Ling, Biying
Sartori, Sergio
Sysling, Fenneke
Tousignant, Noemi
Concepts
Measurement
Quantification
Measuring instruments
Economics
Science and society
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Renaissance
21st century
Places
Netherlands
England
United States
Italy
Geneva (Switzerland)
Institutions
Convention du mètre (1875)
Scientific Instrument Society
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment